Abusive

What do we mean by abusive?

Characterized by improper or wrongful use. adjective

Using or containing insulting or hurtful language. adjective

Causing physical injury to another. adjective

Relating to or practicing sexual abuse. adjective

Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill treatment: as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. Characterized by or containing abuse; marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill-natured; injurious.

Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, an abusive exercise of power.

Misleading, or tending to mislead; employed by misuse; improper.

Synonyms and Insolent, insultiug, offensive, scurrilous, ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. adjective

Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. adjective

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage adjective

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. adjective

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. adjective

Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence. adjective

Expressing offensive reproach adjective

Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment adjective

Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.

Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.

Catachrestic.

Words that are spelled similarly to abusive:
abusive, amusive, abusivo.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word abusive:
neglectful, stepfather, alcoholic, insulting, boyfriend, interrogation, bullying, abused, abuse, workplace, relationships, behaviour, husband, behavior, drunk, threatening, relationship, childhood, prostitution, violent, supervision, practices, father, mother, divorce, physically, violence, pregnant, towards, comments, lover, controlling, foster, messages, sexual, victim, incidents, rape, parents, toward, treatment, parent, marriage, domestic, language, conduct, child.

Words that rhyme with abusive:
elusive, exclusive, conducive, inclusive, intrusive, obtrusive, conclusive, unobtrusive, illusive, reclusive, inconclusive, allusive, mutually exclusive, collusive, nonexclusive, not intrusive, abstruse of, abuse of, bamboo sieve, bruce of, caboose of, coos of, deuce of, diffuse of, disuse of, duce of, excuse of, goose of, juice of, loose of, luce of, medusa of, moose of, mousse of, musa of, noose of, nous of, obtuse of, prepuce of, produce of, profuse of, recluse of, reduce of, reuse of, reuss of, sluice of, spruce of, truce of, use of, zeus of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe abusive:
french, ill.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective abusive:
language, behavior, parents, relationships, relationship, husband, families, practices, men, treatment, situation, father, parent, behaviour, situations, behaviors, words, partner, partners, husbands, epithets, use, mothers, letters, experiences, acts, environment, marriage, terms, family, conduct, letter, home, mother, homes, manner, violence, spouse, remarks, drinking, speech, incidents, childhood, fathers, incident, actions, patterns, boyfriend, marriages, term, act, exercise, names, adults, attacks, epithet, shelters, spouses, practice, calls, tactics, parenting, personality, word, events, comments, environments, attack, stepfather, episodes, trauma, couples, criticism, behaviours, articles, episode, expressions, individuals, past, tone, priests, article.

Consonant match to abusive:
abuse of.

Words that sound like abusive:
abusive, abusif, obsessive, abusing, abrasive, abuses, abuso, abessive, abusage, abuse me, abuse, oppressive, allusive, obtrusive, amusive, abusively, accusive, appulsive, abused, elusive, abuser, submissive, illusive, obsessing, effusive, abus, abrasives, abasing, aborsive, abreast of, abuna, aggressive, aggresive, abusers, oppressing, debussy, erosive, obsesses, a b c, collusive, suppressive, embracive, abusiveness, abbasid, abuseful, aggressiv, assuasive, emissive, abrosia, abasic, occlusive, abassi, mabuse, abbesses, abassis, abisai, buesing, suffusive.